Understanding the importance of efficient data retrieval in SQL Server is paramount for any business intelligence professional. SQL Server query optimization is a critical skill that directly ...

This is a good thing because, in our applications, the same queries do keep coming around again and again. So, once a plan is created, SQL Server flags it with a couple of identifiers that tie the ...

SQL Server 2022 introduces two new query plan feedback features: degree of parallelism feedback and cardinality estimation feedback, and it improves the overall experience of the existing feedback ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly ...

For LINQPad 5, you must use version 1.X If you have a Developer or higher edition of LINQPad, you can use the LINQPadQueryPlanVisualizer package from NuGet to add the visualizer to your queries.

Microsoft has continually added additional functionality to the Query Store, making it a hub of database performance information. In SQL Server 2017, automatic plan correction was added ...